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Embellished with 44 Copperplate heads.
NEW-YORK:
Published by Van Winkle & Wiley.1817.
Southern District of New-York, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the first day of May, in the forty-first yearof the Independence of the United States of America, Van Winkle & Wiley,of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book,the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words and figuresfollowing, to wit:
“The Pocket Lavater, or, the Science of Physiognomy. To which is added,An Inquiry into the Analogy existing between Brute and HumanPhysiognomy, from the Italian of Porta. Embellished with 14 Copperplateheads.”
In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, “Anact for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps,charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, duringthe times therein mentioned,” and also, to an act entitled, “An act,supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement oflearning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to theauthors and proprietors of such copies, during the times thereinmentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing,engraving and etching historical and other prints.”
THERON RUDD.
Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.
The public are here presented with a translation from the French of the“Pocket Lavater,” a work which has become highly popular in France, andwhich has run through successive and repeated editions.
The attention which the French have, of late, paid to Physiognomy, maybe ascribed not only to the infatuating nature, and intrinsic excellenceof that science, but, also, to adventitious circumstances. France, or,more properly, its metropolis, has, within a few years, become, as itwere, the immense stage on which all the varieties of human aspect andaction have been exhibited. Their painters, at present, employ thepencil, not on pieces